The identification of parathyroid gland tissue and its distinction from surrounding structures such as thyroidgland, lymphoid, fibroadipose, and, rarely, thymic tissues on frozen section (FS) may be challenging owingto freezing artifact and small biopsy sent for FS. Intraoperative cytology (IC) provides valuable complementary morphologic details. We evaluated a case by IC alone, followed by int...

BACKGROUND Patients with significant medical problems requiring major otolaryngology procedures are at high risk for both medical and surgical complications. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors associated with perioperative complications in medically compromised patients undergoing major otolaryngology procedures. METHODS Ninety-three consecutive patients with significant comorbid medical il...

background and objective: intraoperative consultation by frozen section is a high – risk procedure with important consequences. therefore, it is critical to determine efficiency of frozen section performance periodically. this study was performed to determine the accuracy of frozen section in urmia university of medical sciences. materials & methods:inthis cross sectional study, we compare...

the high comorbidity of medical and psychiatric diagnoses in the general hospital population requires collaboration between various medical fields to provide comprehensive health care. this study aims to find the rate of psychiatric consultations, their timing and overall diagnostic trend in comparison to previous studies. tehran university of medical sciences has got an active psychiatric cons...

intraoperative radiation therapy (iort) is a multidisciplinary approach in which residual tumors or tumor beds are directly irradiated during a surgical procedure. to evaluate its efficacy, from 1985, we conducted a prospective study including non-metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma treated by surgery, iort (15 grays) and postoperative external beam radiotherapy (44 grays). up to 1993, 51 cases o...

Introduction: Intraoperative assessment of neurosurgical specimens using squash cytology and frozen sections is helpful to plan extent surgery determine adequacy representative tissue. Combination these techniques has been shown increase diagnostic accuracy rate concordance with final diagnosis. Aim: To assess usefulness preparation cryostat in making intraoperative diagnosis compare respect th...

natural rubber latex is the second most implicated agent in intraoperative anaphylactic reactions. this report describes a case of intraoperative anaphylaxis occurring in a non-atopic fourteen-year-old girl undergoing multiple surgical procedures, but without spina bifida, in which latex surgical gloves were the main culprit for the anaphylactic reactions. clinical manifestations of an anaphyla...

This case report describes an 11-year-old boy with a known esophageal bezoar admitted to surgery for esophagogas-troduodenoscopy with biopsy and possible removal of the bezoar. On induction, a copious amount of fluid and solid food particulate was noted in the posterior oropharynx, interfering with immediate intubation. After clearing of the oropharynx, the patient was intubated. A bronchoscopy...

BACKGROUND Historically, the preoperative consultation has consisted of a discussion between patient and surgeon. There is a growing literature describing efforts to integrate multimedia into surgical patient education. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of an educational video tutorial on early learning of information specific to patients undergoing shoulder arthroscopy when it was used a...